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Kurds call on 'all Middle East' to help defend stronghold from Isis
Full Article The Observer
21 Sep 2014

A Turkish soldier helps Syrian Kurds cross into Turkey near the south-eastern town of Suruc. Photograph: Reuters Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Iraq are scrambling to help defend a vital Kurdish safe haven in northern Syria, where tens of thousands of Kurds have fled after an offensive by Islamic State (Isis) militants. The border region of...

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Turkish soldiers stand guard as Syrian refugees gather at the border in Suruc, Turkey, late Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 17 Aug 2014; published 30 Apr 2012
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Kurdistan - 'Hele Hele Hele!' from Turkish Kurd Folk Group - KOMA ROZERIN - Diyarbakır
updated 04 Aug 2014; published 28 Feb 2008
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Kurd Control - Turkey
updated 22 Jul 2014; published 02 Apr 2010
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Eurovision song contest 2010 - Kurdistan (south-east turkey)--IBRAHIM TATLISES - SEMMAME
updated 09 Jul 2014; published 26 May 2008
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The history of Kurdish & Kurdistan Conflict in Middle East
updated 15 Jul 2014; published 20 Sep 2011
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We All Love you PJAK( NO to Iranian Occupation of Eastern Kurdistan)
updated 18 Sep 2014; published 18 Sep 2014
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Urgent Middle-East-Debate: Can Turkey accept Kurdistan and solve Kalifate crisis? 2/2.
What the Afghan power-sharing deal means
Full Article BBC News
21 Sep 2014

The two rivals for the Afghan presidency, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, are expected to sign a power-sharing agreement on Sunday, after a two-month audit of disputed election results. BBC Afghanistan correspondent David Loyn has seen a copy of the final document. The deal that ends almost six months of wrangling was finally agreed late on...

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File - Millions of Afghan women and men cast their ballots in Presidential and Provincial Council elections on 5 April, 2014, in an important step forward in their country’s first democratic transition of power.
photo: UN / Fardin Waezi

updated 09 Sep 2014; published 09 Sep 2014
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Abdullah insists he won disputed Afghan election
updated 03 Sep 2014; published 03 Sep 2014
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Afghan Election Contenders In Last-ditch Bid To Rescue Power-sharing Deal
updated 21 Sep 2014; published 21 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan power-sharing deal struck
updated 08 Sep 2014; published 08 Sep 2014
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Obama Says Afghan Power-sharing Deal Needed Soon
updated 28 Apr 2014; published 28 Apr 2014
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Afghan election: Abdullah and Ghani set for second round
updated 20 Sep 2014; published 20 Sep 2014
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Afghan Presidential Rivals to Share Power
Egypt ready to join ISIS fight
Full Article Longview News Journal
21 Sep 2014

CAIRO — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told The Associated Press on Saturday he is prepared to give whatever support is needed in the fight against the Islamic State group but called for a “comprehensive strategy” to tackle the roots of extremism across the region. In his first interview with a foreign...

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks to The Associated Press
photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo

updated 16 Mar 2011; published 16 Mar 2011
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street fight in egypt
updated 19 Aug 2013; published 19 Aug 2013
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What is Egypt Fight Terrorism? Killing Peaceful Civilian is Terrorism! Shame on Sisi -- Shame on UN
updated 24 Jul 2011; published 24 Jul 2011
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Fight erupts after Egypt vs Algeria Match 2011 Military WorldCup's final
updated 16 Sep 2012; published 16 Sep 2012
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Sunni-Shiite Debate Deteriorates into a Brawl on Egyptian TV
updated 01 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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MASSIVE Fight and Chaos in Egypt Football Game
updated 22 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
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Fight in Fleming, Alexandria, Egypt (Before the murder)
Donetsk Blasts as Kyiv, Rebels Cut Deal
Full Article Voa News
21 Sep 2014

VOA News The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was rocked by blasts on Saturday, even as government forces and pro-Russian separatists prepared to create a buffer zone to separate the warring sides. Participants at Ukrainian peace talks in Belarus agreed on Saturday to create a buffer zone 30-kilometers wide, moving artillery on the front line to separate...

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Smoke rises from the airport outside Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, May 26, 2014
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev

updated 11 Aug 2014; published 11 Aug 2014
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Ukraine says its forces close to taking rebel-held Donetsk
updated 05 Aug 2014; published 05 Aug 2014
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Heavy fighting in Ukraine rebel stronghold of Donetsk
updated 07 Aug 2014; published 07 Aug 2014
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Ukraine military encircles rebel-held Donetsk
updated 11 Aug 2014; published 11 Aug 2014
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Donetsk Rebels Surrounded, Commander Says
updated 20 Sep 2014; published 20 Sep 2014
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Massive Blast Devastates Donetsk Munitions Factory in Eastern Ukraine
updated 20 Sep 2014; published 20 Sep 2014
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Huge blast devastates munitions factory in Ukraine’s rebel held Donetsk VIDEO
A War Worth Fighting, But We're Not There Yet
Full Article Huffington Post
20 Sep 2014

It appears that we may be going to war against the Islamic State (IS). I use the word "appears" advisedly, because appearances may be deceiving. It's true that we've already bombed almost 200 IS targets. And it's true that the President has declared his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the IS, with Vice-President Biden upping the...

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File - An Iraqi girl peeks out out the broken classroom window to watch U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, deliver much needed desks for the school in Nawaful village, Kirkuk Province, Iraq, March 25, 2008.
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Samuel Bendet

updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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President Obama Addresses the Nation on the ISIL Threat
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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President Obama speech on ISIS ISIL - Barack Obama Address US War strategy fight ISIL 9/10/2014
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Obama OKs Airstrikes in Syria, President Declares War on ISIS, ISIL?
updated 30 Aug 2014; published 30 Aug 2014
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Thank you President Obama for not yet having a ISIL strategy in Syria
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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OBAMA's Anti ISIS / ISIL WAR in SYRIA May Be ILLEGAL
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Barack Obama Speech ISIL Video Obama Strategy Destroying Obama ISIS FULL Obama Isil Speech

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The Independent
If the United States and its allies want to combat the Islamic State jihadists (IS, formerly known as Isis) successfully, they should arrange a ceasefire between the forces of...
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National Public Radio
3:58 PM ET i i Afghan rebels, or mujahedeen, climb on a Soviet helicopter they shot down in 1981. U.S. assistance helped the rebels drive out the Soviet forces. But the chaotic...
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The Dallas Morning News
Earlier this month, MIT professor and provocateur extraordinaire Noam Chomsky, a linguist by training, published an article titled “The End of History? The short, strange era of...

Criticism grows as Sierra Leone’s Ebola shutdown enters final day
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SIERRA Leone’s 72-hour nationwide shutdown entered its final day today, as criticism grew that the extreme action aimed at containing the spread of the deadly Ebola virus was no more than a poorly planned publicity stunt. Most of the west...
photo: UN / Andrey Tsarkov
Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrives for his first news conference after his release in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013.
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The former oil tycoon and adversary of president Vladimir Putin has launched a pro-European political platform from exile ...
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
A bus driver sits inside a bus as a huge screen showing a live broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, is reflected in a window, in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012.
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Ng Han Guan/APChinese President Xi Jinping walks near a guard of honor at a welcome ceremony for Myanmar President Thein Sein in Beijing, China. The clue is in the name. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) groups six countries--China,...
photo: AP / Andy Wong
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses the media on the second day of a two-day EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
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Reuters EDINBURGH/LONDON— Former prime minister Gordon Brown urged British leaders on Saturday to keep their promise to grant further powers to Scotland after it voted to remain in the United Kingdom, as a consensus between London's main parties...
photo: AP / Thierry Charlier
In this photo taken on Sunday, July 27, 2014, a boy, center, selling soft drinks walks past a clinic taking care of Ebola patients in the Kenema District on the outskirts of Kenema, Sierra Leone. Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has closed some border crossings and
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Nina DeVries FREETOWN— The streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, resembled a ghost town Saturday as the nation entered the second day of a three-day lockdown to combat the deadly Ebola. The virus has killed more than 2,600 across West...
photo: AP / Youssouf Bah
 Oktoberfest in Munich. (dy1)
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Four taps on the keg and the beer started to flow. Munich mayor Dieter Reiter opened the city's annual Oktoberfest with the traditional call of "Ozapft is" to the delight of thousands who had managed to get a place in the main beer tent today. Some...
photo: Public Domain Photo
Philippines Storm
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Taiwan on Saturday readied nearly 50,000 troops in preparation for tropical storm Fung-Wong as it churns toward the island with threats of downpours and powerful winds after claiming five lives in the Philippines. Three counties in southern Taiwan...
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez